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confess, we are not in a position, just now, to offer a sub- 
stitute. We must think the matter over again. We subjoin 
Hurtrel d’Arboval’s account of hysteria, as published in his 
c Dictionnaire de Medecine Vttcrinaire / 
hysteria. ( Hysterie .) 
cc A disease which, in women, consists in excessive nervous 
irritability, with periodical return of convulsions, sense of 
strangulation, and suspension of the exercise of several of the 
senses, resulting from cerebral irritation, in combination with 
irritation of the generative organs. Among the females of 
animals it is but rarely seen, unless in the case of certain 
species of them which are not permitted to follow the 
impulses of their venereal appetites. Bitches are seen so 
sometimes, and so are cats, at a time when they are rigo- 
rously denied the approaches of the male. They then 
experience turgescence and orgasm of the sexual parts ; 
singularity in their movements, rubbing of the vulva against 
any hard body ; catawawling and howling, or strange barking ; 
restlessness, dispiritedness ; abandoning their masters for the 
sake of straying away, & c. We saw a bitch of the lap-dog- 
breed in this way ; she had difficulty of swallowing ; and 
when she was constrained to swallow, she accomplished the 
act, but with pain. At times she frothed at the mouth, and 
occasionally howled, when she was left by herself. The 
indication paramount in these cases is to allow nature to 
take her course at the epoch of heat or rut. Afterwards, 
such animals may be kept on temperate regimen, or lose 
blood, should the hysteria take on a comatose character: 
calming at the same time the irritability of the organ by 
tepid vapour-baths, local bloodletting from the thighs or the 
tail. But the readiest remedy is the unrestricted admission 
of the male. 
“ Might not we regard as a case of hysteria the one consti- 
tuting the subject of the following observation, collected by 
Guillaume, and inserted, along with several others of his, in 
the ‘Memoirs of the Royal and Central Society of Agriculture 
for the Year 1 8 25 ?* We cannot give here more than an extract 
